BOSTON – In a shocking case of child exploitation, Boylston resident Randy Alan Chaplis has been arrested and charged with distributing child pornography.
According to the complaint, on Feb. 9, 2017, Chaplis sent an email to an undercover law enforcement officer that included multiple images of child pornography. During other email communications with this undercover officer, Chaplis stated that he likes 3-to-10 year olds and that he has “fun” with his girlfriend’s five-year-old daughter when her mother is not home.
Chaplais emailed graphic descriptions of sexual acts he had purportedly performed with this child and asked whether the undercover officer intended to have sexual intercourse with an infant daughter once she turned three or four. The complaint also alleges that Chaplis bragged to another internet user about having sexual intercourse with a four-year-old-girl.
On March 15, 2017, law enforcement agents executed a search warrant at Chaplis’s residence and located an external hard drive and a desktop computer that included multiple images of child pornography.
The charging statute provides a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and no greater than 20 years in prison, a minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.
Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb and Matthew Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney William F. Abely of Weinreb’s Worcester Branch Office is prosecuting the case.
The case is brought as part of Project Safe Childhood. In 2006, the Department of Justice created Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from exploitation and abuse.
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Key Facts
- State: Massachusetts
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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